Mailing-card.



G. W. CGBEL.

MAILING CARD.

AVPPLlcATloN msn APH. 27.1916. V 'Patented' Jian. 23,1917.

GEORGE W. COBEL, 0F BROOKJINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA.

MAILING-CRD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application led April 27, 1916. Serial No. 94,027.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE lV. COREL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brookings, in the county of Brookings and State of South Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mailing-Cards; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to mailing cards for deposits, and has for an object to provide a card embodying new and improved means for receiving and accommodating coins, currency, checks, and other negotiable paper, together with improved means for retaining such deposits in and on the card, and with means accompanying the card for disclosing the contents to the recipient.

A further object of the invention is to provide a card properly proportioned to be mailed in an ordinary envelop, having improved means for receiving and retaining various forms of money and negotiable instruments, with deposit slips in duplicate interlaid by a carbon sheet whereby the depositor may make duplicate memoranda of the deposits, one of which is retained by himself and the other forwarded to the receiving institution together with the deposits.

With these and other objects in view the 'invention comprises certain novel features of construction, combination and arrange .ment of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

rllhe drawing discloses in plan one of the improved cards with the flaps spread out in position to receive the coins and other deposits, and showing the deposit slips, one of which is torn away showing the carbon sheet beneath also partly torn away to disclose the deposit slip below.

ln the specific embodiment of the invention shown in the drawing a card 1 is employed of such dimensions as to be received in a usual and ordinary envelop, and provided in its left half with a plurality of openings 2 of proper sizes to receive coins of various denominations. To the back of the card is applied a sheet 3 as of/paper or the like, and where it covers the coin reeeptacles it forms a rear wall thereof. This sheet is cut into such shape that it forms three Haps projecting beyond the contour of the card at its left portion, and which ll will flap 5, and the sealing flap (3. lVhere these flaps join the body of the sheet which is along the edge of the card, they may be scored or otherwise provided with fold lines 4', 5 and 6 respectively, and no flap has any gum contiguous to its fold line. The

.other three margins ofthe small Hap are gummed as seen at 7, the three margins of the large flap are gulnmed as seen at 17, and the three margins of the sealing flap are gummed as seen at 27. This flap may well be provided with outstanding ears S beyond its outer edge, and the faces of these ears are gummed as at 9 along the outer line of gum 27.

Upon one end of the card a deposit slip l0 is secured with a carbon sheet 11 overlying such deposit slip l0, and a second deposit slip 12, in all respects similar to the deposit slip l0, is superposed upon the carbon sheet 11 and provided with the necessary or desirable data, forms and blanks for filling in the deposits carried by the card. y

In the use of this improved device, the coins are iirst inserted into receptacles 2, and currency or checks or other negotiable paper may then be laid upon the coins in folded condition. The gummed margins of the small flap 4 are now moistened and the entire flap laid over the deposits whatever they are. lllhe gummed margins of the large flap 5 are now moistened and the entire flap is carried transversely across the small Hap and its side margins sealed thereon whereas its end margin 17 projects beyond the right hand side margins 7 of the small flap is sealed directly on the card at about'the point indicated at 17"-thus sealing the large flap onto the small one and also sealing the large flap onto the card and therefore holding the contents very reliably in place. Finally the margins of the sealing flap 6 and its ears 8 are moistened, and this flap is laid over onto the large flap and. sealed down onto the same. llt will be observed that the transverse width of the sealing flap is about the same as the transverse dimension (length) of the large flap, whereas the latter dimension is greater than the transverse width of the small flap as has been eX- plained. The result is that the deposit is entirely surrounded by at least two thicknesses of paper gummed to each other or to the card, and on three sides by the fold lines; and loss of this deposit in transit `respectively call the smallilap 4, the large and Y through amount of deposits forthe the mails is almost impossible. These several flaps and the bills or other negotiable paperV` if any make a considerable thickness at this the left end of the card, but the thickness is offset by that of the tablet or pad of deposit slips at the right end of the same, and therefore the entire device may be said to be substantially of one thickness throughout. v Y

The deposits slips are filled in to show the "arious items, and the top slip and carbon sheet removed, leaving the deposit slip 10 secured to the card which, together with its contents, is now inserted in an envelop andmailed'to the depository. p

For convenience -in operating and to be sure that the flaps are properly folded, the

flaps are preferably numbered flap l, flap 2,

and flap 3, a shown in the drawing, which Will indicate the sequence in which such iaps should be folded over.

While it is intended that the card shall be employed for mailing deposits to banks and other deposit-receiving institutions it is obvious that the principle involved is not limited to making deposits, but may be ernployed with equal efficiency where coins, currency or the like are to be mailed for any purpose.

The herein described mailing card comprising a body of cardboard provided at its eft end with a series of coin receptacles, a memorandum pad attached to the face of the card at its right end, a sheet attached to theJl back of the card and closing said receptacles at one side, and three flaps integral with the edges of the sheet and projecting beyond the edgesl of, thel card at its left end and beyond the left extremity of the card, all flaps being gummed around the three margins remote from the card and one Hap being narrower transversely than the end flap is long so that when the former is folded over the coin receptacles and onto the card the latter may be folded across the first fla-p and gummed upon it and directly to the face of the card 'between said receptacles and pad.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. COBEL.

Witnesses:

AYLMER COLE, T. S. BRAITHWAIT. 

